KOREA: Gyeonggi to end consumption of downer cows - (Chosunilbo)
July 8, 2008 – 10:58 pmAbout 600 so-called downer cattle have been slaughtered and sold for consumption in Gyeonggi Province every year. The affliction, which causes animals to stagger, has nothing to do with mad cow disease, but the Gyeonggi provincial government decided no longer to slaughter such cattle in the future but buy all of them to dispose of for purposes other than eating.
The provincial government on Monday said about 600 of the 130,000 cattle slaughtered there every year cannot stand on their own feet. These animals show symptoms of metabolic disorders, fractures, birth defects or debility. Gyeonggi Province has so far inspected only 1,680 cattle, or 1.3 percent of all the animals slaughtered annually in the province for mad cow disease, but all downer cattle. It therefore permitted their slaughter and sale as beef.
But amid massive protests against U.S. beef imports and public confusion over the distinction between downer cows and animals infected […]
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